Nostradamus and The Present Day

1. 9/11

This is the quatrain that is largely agreed upon as being a terrifying prediction of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The years are a bit off but that is not unusual for Nostradamus whose long term astrological predictions are always a bit off (no computers back then.) Also nobody is sure if Nostradamus was using the Gregorian or Julian calendar to calculate his dates.  There is a detailed explanation from the seer that vaguely explains his methods of calculation in a reprint of a letter he wrote to Henry II (Epistle to Henry II) at the end of this book.

In the year 1999, in the seventh month,
from the sky will come the great King of Terror,
bringing back to life the great King of the Mongols.
Before and after, Mars to reign by good fortune.

Although the date of the event appears to be two years too early, it is important to remember that Nostradamus often wrote in anagrams. The real clue is that the date 1999 is nothing more than a numeric anagram. If we reverse the order of the “1”s and “9”s, we arrive at the date 9-11-1 (the date of the 9-11 attacks).

Even more frightening is the following quatrain.
Earth-shaking fire from the center of the earth.
will cause the towers around the New City to shake,
Two great rocks for a long time will make war,
And then Arethusa (a ship) will color a new river red.
(Century 1, Quatrain 87)
Although this is a weaker quatrain, there is a mention of the New City, which may be New City and “the towers” which may allude to the twin towers. Arethusa is thought to be an anagram for an event that we have yet to see that is related to terrorist attacks and the war in Iraq.

2.Hurricane Katrina

 

The cities of Tours, Orleans, Blois, Angers, Reims and Nantes
are troubled by sudden change.
Tents will be pitched by (people) of foreign tongues;
rivers, darts at Rennes, shaking of land and sea.

(Century 1, Quatrain 50)

Although traditionally this quatrain was originally thought to refer to France, the Orleans here might be New Orleans in this Quatrain. The “rivers and the shaking of land and sea” could be referred to as the hurricane.

Another the key is “tents will be pitched by people of foreign tongues.” These could be d be aid workers from other countries

 

 

3. Bird Flu?

This quatrain, which talks of a worldwide plague may be in reference to the bird flu.

The great famine, which I sense approaching
will often turn (in various areas) then become worldwide.
It will be so vast and long lasting that (they) will grab
roots from the trees and children from the breast

Century 1, Quatrain 65.
This appears to predict a virus transmitted by bodily fluids. As an aside, Nostradamus also won wide acclaim for his plague-protecting potion of garlic and aloe; it may sound primitive, but garlic’s antibacterial properties have since been acknowledged while aloe is noted for the immunostimulatory properties that increase the immune system’s ability to fight infection and disease.

In another spectacular quatrain, Nostradamus talks of seeing the result of a great plague from an astronaut’s point of view.

A very great famine caused by a pestilent wave
Through a long rain the length of the Artic pole
Saarobryn one hundre leagues from the hemisphere
They will live without law; exempt from politics

(Century 6 – Quatrain 5)

The Avian Bird Flu Virus as seen under an electronic microscope.

This quatrain refers to a pestilent wave (disease) that can be viewed from the Artic pole from Saarobryn (an anagram for a space station) from one hundred leagues (about 300 miles up in the sky where space shuttles fly.)

Some people interpret Saarobryn to be an anagram for Sam Rayborn, the American senator who along with Senator Lyndon Johnson was instrumental in passing the bill that created NASA.

4. The Iraq War

There is a quatrain of Nostradamus that clearly points to three conflicts occurring in the areas of Arabia/Kuwait, of Eastern Turkey and of Iran. The first one already came to pass 12 years ago in what came be to known as Desert Storm. The second one refers to the current war in Iraq. And the third one is for the near future when, this time, Iran will be involved also.

The first quatrain is

On the field of Iran, of Arabia and of Eastern Turkey
Two great armies will assemble three times
Near the river Araks
The host of the great Suleiman will be cut off

(Century 3, Quatrain 31)

“By firepower of armies, not far from the Black Sea,
He will come from Iran to occupy Trebizond

(Century 5, Quatrain 27)

Trebizond is a strategic city in Eastern Turkey on the shores of the Black Sea.

Quatrain No.54, Century No. 5, states:

From the Black Sea and the great Tartary;
a would be king will come to see Gaul
He will transpire Alania and Armenia
and in Istanbul will leave his bloody standard.

Gaul was an ancient name for Turkey and Alania is modern day Chechnya that suggests Russian involvement in the Iraq-Iran conflicts in the near future.

3. The Death of Pope John Paul I

Much to the dismay of many Catholics, there are several quatrains that point to the death of Pope John Paul I being a murder. This pope held office for only 35 days in 1978 and died mysteriously

“When the tomb of the great Roman is found,
a new Pope will be elected the following day
he will not be approved by the Senate
his blood poisoned in the sacred chalice.

(Century 3, Quatrain 65)

A murder is once again pointed to in this quatrain. The tomb of the great Roman is St. Peter. The senate is the Cardinals of the Curia. The quatrain implies that Pope John Paul I was poisoned by being given something to drink.

“He who shall have the government of the great cloak
will be led to execution in several cases.
The twelve red ones will come to spoil the cover
beneath murder, murder is done.”

(Century 4, Quatrain 11)

The one in the great cloak is the Pope. The twelve red ones refer to the cardinals.

“Elected as Pope he will be mocked by the chosen
suddenly and unexpectedly removed, prompt and timid.
Caused to die, through too much goodness and kindness
he will fear for the guard killed on the night of his death.”

(Century 10, Quatrain 12)

In 1979 new Pope (John Paul I) had scarcely been pope for a month, when suddenly, he died. He was immediately cremated which is unusual because of the tradition of the entombment of popes within the Vatican walls. An autopsy was not performed and a cause of death not officially determined.  This has created much speculation about a conspiracy to eliminate him because he was perceived as being too weak to deal with the issues of the day.

5. The Death of Princess Diana

Here is a quatrain that many followers of Nostradamus perceive as one of his greatest predictions.

The last son of the man with the Prophet’s name
Will bring Diana to her day of rest.
At a distance they wander in frenetic grief
Delivering a great people from ruin.’

(Century 2, Quatrain 28)

The father of Dodi al-Fayed, the owner of Harrod’s department store, is named
Mohammed, the name of the Islamic Prophet (the man with the prophet’s name. ) He is with her until her day of death (day of rest.)

In this verse he gives the month of Diana’s death, it is the last number of the verse. If you add the 2 to 28, you have 30. Diana died on 8/31. We can create 8/30 by adding the numbers making him only one day off.

The space shuttle Challenger, destroyed on take-off on January 28th 1986. The craft combusted just after lift-off from the launch pad.

From the human flock nine will be sent away,
Separated from control and advice
Their fate will be sealed on departure
K-Th-L make a error; the dead banished

(Century 1, Quatrain 81)

This quatrain is off as there were only seven crew members on board (or were there?) However the rest of it is eerily accurate. Separated from control and advice refers to the fact that they were out of communication with NASA Ground Control.
“Their fate was sealed on departure ” certainly gives you something to think about if you consider that afterwards, videos showed flames escaping while the rocket was still on the launching pad.

K-Th-L may be an anagram or short for for ThioKol, the company that manufactured the defective rocket engine. Nostradamus may have omitted the vowels. By the way, a original written the last line is in Latin reading “Kappa, Thita, Lambda mors bannis esgarez. ” And this becomes K-Th-L, which becomes “Thiokol ” which becomes “Morton Thiokol Corporation ”

3. The Three Antichrists

Throughout Nostradamus’ ten centuries of quatrains he speaks of three powerful antichrists that tyrannize the world from his time to ours. He calls these three individuals the anti-christs and the verses have been variously translated and interpreted as below.

Napoleon is widely thought to be the first of these three anti-Christs.  Of Napoleon’s rise to power and years as Emperor Nostradamus wrote -
An Emperor shall be born near Italy.
Who shall cost the Empire dear,
They shall say, with what people he keeps company
He shall be found less a Prince than a butcher.

Napoleon was considered to be a butcher even by his allies and supporters.

Napoleon Bonaparte - The First Antichrist?

From a simple soldier he will rise to the empire,
From the short robe he will attain the long.
Great swarms of bees shall arise.

After becoming Emperor, Napoleon adopted the beehive as his imperial crest.

Nostradamus made other predictions of Napoleon’s fate:

The captive prince, conquered, is sent to Elba;
He will sail across the Gulf of Genoa to Marseilles.
By a great effort of the foreign forces he is overcome,
Though he escaped the fire, his bees yield blood by the barrel.

Napoleon was exiled to the small island of Elba but escaped for 100 days.  After he was defeated at Waterloo he traded in his power for exile on tiny St. Helena.

The second anti-Christ Nostradamus wrote about was “a man stained with murder...the great enemy of the human race...one who was worse than any who had gone before...bloody and inhuman.” Experts are in agreement that the sixteenth century prophet was referring to Adolf Hitler

2nd Anti-Christ

Hitler -The Second Antichrist?

Out of the deepest part of the west of Europe,
From poor people a young child shall be born,
Who with his tongue shall seduce many people,
His fame shall increase in the Eastern Kingdom.
He shall come to tyrannize the land.
He shall raise up a hatred that had long been dormant.
The child of Germany observes no law.
Cries, and tears, fire, blood, and battle.

A captain of Germany shall come to yield himself by false hope,
So that his revolt shall cause great bloodshed.

The poetic images in these quatrains create an apt portrait of Adolf Hitler.

Beasts wild with hunger will cross the rivers
The greater part of the battlefield will be against Hister.

Finally, Nostradamus sums up Hitler’s life and even predicts that the events surrounding Hitler’s death would be mysterious.

Near the Rhine from the Austrian mountains
Will be born a great man of the people, come too late.
A man who will defend Poland and Hungary
And whose fate will never be certain

Nostradamus speaks of yet a third anti-Christ who will have a disastrous effect on the world. Some say that Saddam Hussein, the dictator from Iraq, could be this evil tyrant.  Others say that he has not yet appeared.  What does Nostradamus say about this third anti-Christ?  First, Nostradamus tells us he will come from the Middle East.

3rd Anti-Christ

Out of the country of Greater Arabia
Shall be born a strong master of Mohammed…
He will enter Europe wearing a blue turban.
He will be the terror of mankind.
Never more horror.

Nostradamus also predicts that this man from Greater Arabia will invade Europe.  This invasion will start a third world war that will be far worse than all the other wars put together (In one quatrain Nostradamus gives us an exact date in which the war will be well under way.)

Saddam Hussein - The Third Antichrist?

In the year 1999 and seven months
From the sky will come the great King of Terror.
He will bring back to life the King of the Mongols;
Before and after war reigns.

Of course as discussed in the section of this book that deals with 9/11 this is thought to be the attack on the twin towers. In yet another quatrain he predicts that this war will last seven and twenty years (just in case you were wondering how long it will ever take for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq!

The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.
Fire approaches the great new city.

In this phrase, Nostradamus refers to a great city in the new world of America near forty-five degrees latitude.  Experts agree this could only be New York.

By fire he will destroy their city,
A cold and cruel heart,
Blood will pour,
Mercy to none.

Although the prophet of doom seems very gloomy he does predict that the war will be ended by an alliance between America and a country from the North Pole (possibly Russia or Canada).

When those of the Northern Pole are united,
In the East will be great fear and dread…
One day the two great leaders will be friends;
Their great powers will be seen to grow.
The New Land will be at the height of its power:
To the man of blood the number is reported.

Even skeptics pay careful attention to Nostradamus’ predictions of the three anti-Christs.  If Nostradamus truly predicted Napoleon and Hitler we should take heed of his words about a future antichrist. In the next chapter we take an even more in-depth look at some of his predictions for the future, which includes a prediction for the end of the world.

Famous Fulfilled Prophecies of Nostradamus

For your reference, the complete Centuries collection of quatrains is published in Part 5 at the end of this book. The quatrains used in these examples are quoted from there.

1. Death of Henry II

The Death of Henry II from a jousting accident is one of Nostradamus first and most famous fulfilled prophecies.

         Henry II, King of France

 

Here is the quatrain:

The young lion will overcome the older one,
On the field of combat in a single battle;
He will pierce his eyes through a golden cage,
Two wounds made one, then he dies a cruel death.

(Century 1, Quatrain 35)

In June 1559, Henry II ignored all warnings that Nostradamus gave him and participated in a jousting tournament against the Comte de Montgomery. Both men used shields embossed with lions. Montgomery was six years younger than Henry.

During the final bout of fighting in the tournament, Montgomery failed to lower his lance in time. It shattered, sending a large splinter through the king’s gilded visor (golden cage). The result was two moral wounds (two wounds made one and then he will die a cruel death.) One splinter spliced eye; the other impaled his temple just behind the eye. Both splinters from the lance penetrated his brain. Henry lived for ten days in agony, thus fulfilling the Nostradamus prophecy that he would die a cruel death.

2. The Fire of London

This is one of the few prophecies in the quatrains where Nostradamus actually got the year dead on!

The blood of the just will be demanded of London,
Burnt by the fire in the year 66

(Century 2; Quatrain 51)

On Sunday morning, the 2nd September 1666, the destruction of medieval London began with one simple spark. In five days a cataclysmic fire destroyed the city of Shakespeare. An area of one and a half miles by half a mile lay in ashes; 373 acres inside the city walls and 63 acres outside, 87 churches destroyed (including St. Paul’s Cathedral) and 13,200 houses. Although the blood of the just in the quatrain was demanded of London, only six people died.

Some people see the blood of the just as it was translated from the French to mean that justice was done to the Black Death. This fire did the city a great service by destroying the millions of rats that were carrying the Black plague through the city’s population.

TWIN TOWERS DISASTER - I I

A chilling image of the Twin Towers, which Nostradamus describes,in the only way he is able ,given the limitations of the period in which he is living, as 'hollow mountains in the roadway'.We already know,from 1/87-2001,that his New City' is New York.Here he presents a terrifying picture of the two skyscrappers being 'plunged into the sewers',sescriptions that could have been taken direct from television news pictures of the disaster showing the towers crumpling inexorably earthwards.'Sulphur-poisoned waters' can be taken both figuratively and as a metaphor for the realization,by the United States,that from this moment on,they,too,are vulnerable,and that they will be forced to drain the cup of poisoned water fate has handled them to its dregs.

Summary

The destruction of the Twin Towers will traumatize the people of the United States.There will be many long-term effects of the tragedy,and it will poison relations between the US and Islam.

GUANTANAMO BAY

More than five hundred political detainees were transfered from Camp X-ray to the newly built Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay(which forms part of the Cuban archipelago,ergo 'the islands')following the defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2002.After the US/Iraq war of 2003,even more 'exiles' were transferred there.In Ba'athist terms,President Bush would be perceived as an even 'crueller' leader than Saddam Hussein,and countless murders have been committed as a direct result of US intervantion in both countries. The Bush regime,embarrassed by the bad publicity over its treatment of the internees,has since struggled to established a legally viable argument to justify its harsh interrogation techniques at Guantanamo,which ,as outer space',It is reasonable to suppose that prisoners,on the receiving end of such techniques,would very often talk 'until they cannot stop speaking'.

Summary :

Survivors of the war in Afganistan are deported to Guantanamo Bay.One prisoner's testimony is used against the other.The Prisoners,under intolerable pressure,are eventually forced to talk.

TWIN TOWERS DISASTER - I

Prediction - September 2001

An uncanny foretelling of the Twin Towers disaster,even down to a paralleling of the two rock-like towers with a war between the 'two great rocks' of Christianity and Islam.The towers are brought down by fire dawn from the earth's core,an extraordinary leap of the imagination for Nostradamus when one bears in mind that the explosive catalyst used in the attack was ioil-based avaiation fuel.Another extraordinay coincidence links the myth of Arethusa,with her legendary links at Ellis,to that of Ellis,to that of Ellis Island,the immigration gateway to NewYork - a buried clue left by Nostadamus which pinpoints exactly to which New City he is referring in this text.

A further clue to the location of disaster is contained in the first line's use of the word du,which can mean either 'of' or 'form'.If read as 'fire of the centre of the earth' then the World Trade Centre tellingly springs to mind.Nostradamu's use of the term Cite Nuefve(the New City),immediatedly links 1/87 to the next quatrain in our series,10/49-2001.Other similarities also grab the attention;the mention of rocks and mountains;teh symbols of water and its poisoning,the first time with blood,the second with sulphur,and the Arethusan springs,at both Ellis and Sytacuse(also a place in New York State).


Summary

Following an attack on New York's Twin TOwers,in which avaition fuel is the priciple component,along war between Chritianity and Islam is triggered.

PREDICTIONS OF NOSTRADAMUS

It will be an uncomfotable experience for president George W Bush to open this book and discover that a diviner in sixteenth - century France has forseen the attempted assassination of a major world leader as occuring sometime during his tenure.

If Mr Bush is a wise man(and we must assume that he is),he will read quatrain IO/26-2006-2008 very carefully indeed,and then take urgent steps to make sure the prophecy doesn't come true in relation to him.But President Bush,like all US presidents
throughout history,is very used to being threatened.He is protected by the most practised to being threatened.He is protected by the most practised security service in the world.Founded in 1865 to combat currency counterfeiting and forgery,the secret service has safeguarded every US president since 1901,the year in which william McKinley became the third president to assassinated within a period of third-six years.On hearing the news of his death,it was immediately decided by the powers-that-be that something was,indeed,'rotten in the state of Denmark',and that urgent action needed to be taken to staunch the political haemorrhaging.

The Secret Service has lost only one further president in the century following its inception,but he was if one may permit oneself the word,a lulu.I am speaking of John F kennedy,whose assassination on the 22nd November 1963 ushered in a whole new era of political paranoia.There have been a number of close calls since then,which the attempt one Ronald Reagan's life being only the most promonent,but,on the whole,the Secret Service has been remarkably effective in protecting US Heads of State and their families from harm-with the notable exception of President Kennedy's brother,Robert,who was shot dead in Los Angeles,in 1968.

what is new about the World Leader/michel de Nostredame scenario,is that vulnerable world leaders with highly placed brothers will discover,on reading quattrain number 10/26,not only that an assassination attempts may be made on their lives,but also what will happen after the assassination-if ,of course,it is successful.This information they will no doubt find hard to swallow.But we are not asking them to take it simply on trust.Just look at the track record.Nostradamus correctly predicted the death,during a friendly joust,of King Henry's opponent entering the King's helmet through the visor and piercing his eye.Nostradamus warned Henry's Queen,Catherin de Medici,in person,of the danger,but she was unable to dissuade her husband from agreeing to a rematch(following a hung decision after their first bout)with the reluctant Montgomery,Captain of the Scottish Guard.The King died an agonising death,ten days latter,on the 10th July 1559.The crestfallen Montgomery,pardoned by the king,succumbled to the widowed Queen's disfavour a full fifteen years after her husband's death-and that,too,was predicted by Nostradamus,in quatrain 3/30,right down to the six armed men who kidnapped him,naked,from his bedroom,and hurried him to the Conciergerie prison,where he died.

Benito Mussolini,too would have been well-advised to lend an ear to quatrain 2/24,in which not only is his death predicted,but also the manner of it described-being 'hung inside a cage of iron',which turned out to be the charred frame of a fire-bombared petrol station at Guilino di Mezzegra,near Lake Cobo,in Italy.Napoleon,the Duc de Berry,Charles I,Adolf Hitler,Mary,Queen of Scots,and even John F Kennedy could all have benefited from advance warning of their death,but,as Augustine Birrell so elegantly puts it,in his Obiter Dicta; 'History is a pageant and not a philosophy'.Even if we have knowledge of the future,it is not necessarily either desirable,or even possible,to act on that information.

Now back to the complete prophecies for the future.I have begun the commentaries marginally in the past,with the Twin Tower Disaster of the 11th september 2001,not only because it coincided almost exactly with the turn of our century,but also because Nostradamus's predictions about the event are so detailed,and so astonishing,that they will give even further credence to this prognostications for our future,and that of our planet.Interpreting Nostradamus is very much like working on a detective story.Following his filigrees of meaning through to final ,if tentative,connclusion ,is an immensely satisfying work of deduction.I have therfore taken as my starting point the premise that the most esoteric of Nostradamus's quatrains -in other words those without any obvious reference to the times in which he lived,or to the four and a half centuries immediately succeeding his death-must,by default,refer to the future.I have therfore retranslated these,and approached them entirely afresh,without refering back to past commentaries.